Mia Farrow, the Awesome Aunt of Twitter

Twitter is, of course, the domain of the young and the acerbic. And it's no more rife with bad witticisms than during awards season, when everyone stays up to trade quips about the darted bust of Anne Hathaway's dress. But amid those who wear their virtual barbs as badges is a sexagenarian gem with understated jabs, which cut down Hollywood better than even the most disgruntled and practiced malcontent of Generation Y: Mia Farrow.

Farrow has become something of the aunt of Twitter — the kind of aunt who in one line can leave your dad both speechless and smiling. Sure, like that aunt, her feed often skews political (which people also, it being Twitter, love). But unlike the bland feeds of contemporaries like Diane Keaton, hers is peppered with moments like this, about Woody Allen, her ex-husband, the estranged father of her son Ronan, and the current husband of her adopted daughter:

And so as most other people — celebrities and commoners alike — struggle or over-do it, Mia arrives once again as a reminder that the best of us can be both hilarious and understated at the same time. Even on Twitter.